Short description
Hudson enables self-coached runners to do for themselves what top coaches do for their athletes: custom tailor their training plans. With Hudson's guidance, runners can avoid injury, train smarter, and more effectively--and will soon run faster than they'd probably ever thought possible.
Long description
Competitive running is more popular than ever, with local charity races and major marathons attracting record numbers of participants. And all these runners have one goal in common: from twelve-minute milers to sub-five-minute milers, they all want to run faster. A former All-American at the 10,000 meters and two-time U.S. Olympic Trials marathoner, Brad Hudson has developed adaptive running, an innovative and highly successful approach to training. Instead of relying on cookie-cutter regimens, Hudson closely monitors how his athletes respond to training before prescribing their next day's session. In Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon, Hudson enables self-coached runners to do for themselves what top coaches do for their athletes: custom tailor their training plans. Once they've identified a goal race, Hudson guides runners to become their own best coach, helping them: -assess their fitness, their strengths, and weaknesses -find a starting point and evaluate their responses to workouts - learn how to alter workout cycles in response to how they're feeling and what else might be affecting their training. With Hudson's guidance, runners will avoid injury, train smarter and more effectively--and will soon run faster than they'd probably ever thought possible.
Review
Working with Brad for the past three years has helped me get much stronger, allowing me to make it to the next level. Thanks to Brad's training I can now compete with the best in the world every time I race. --Dathan Ritzenhein, two-time Olympian
Brad's training has elevated my running to heights I daydreamed about as a high school kid. Not only is his training innovative, he's a phenomenal motivator. --James Carney, 2008 U.S.A. Half-Marathon Champion
Brad understands the entire training package and all its components better than any coach I've worked with, athletically or professionally. Reading this book can help take you to the next level and keep pushing you up as far and fast as you want to go. --Sarah Toland, former NCAA All-American, U.S.A. National Cross-Country Team member, and Olympic Trials qualifier for the 5,000 and 10,000
Brad Hudson's years of personal elite training experience, combined with his wide spectrum of training influences, has catapulted him into a class of American coaching that has typically consisted of archaic, iron-fisted coaching systems. He has the ability and openmindedness to return U.S. distance running to prominence. --Casey Burchill, 28-minute 10K runner